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Old 06-26-2009, 08:30 AM   #1 (permalink)
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VirtualNES

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I'm not sure if any of you have heard of this site, but I just retrieved one of mental notes to share this, now perhaps three years after I first stumbled across the website. Sorry about that; better now than never, I guess. For the old school gamer, vNES is a repository and treasured compendium of hundreds of emulated Gameboy, Nintendo, & Super Nintendo games that you can play at your whim through your browser. It doesn't matter if you are hardcore player, a bright-eyed newcomer, or if you are just trying to recapture that youthful exuberance you once felt playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, James Bond Jr., or Mario Is Missing!, I'm sure you'll find a game that'll entertain you on your coffee break.
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VirtualNES.com is the largest website on the Internet that allows you to play your favorite classic Nintendo Entertainment System games online for free. VirtualNES.com is the official home of, and is powered by the vNES emulator by Jamie Sanders.

Unlike our competitors, VirtualNES.com is able to provide you classic NES games without trampling over Copyright laws. We can only provide you with classic NES games that we have here at our offices, which have either been bought out of pocket or donated by Players Like You™. If we don't have the games in our possession, we can't have them online. This protects us from threats of litigation, and protects the users from (wrongly) being hunted down for violating copyrights.
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Old 06-26-2009, 08:51 AM   #2 (permalink)
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this is fantastic!!!!!!!!!! brings back wonderful memories of days spent in dark loud arcades, sounds of popping and whizzing and beeping and buzzing. good times, and great fun. thanks Jetee!
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Old 06-26-2009, 09:00 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Old 06-26-2009, 09:24 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Old 06-26-2009, 09:43 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I have almost all these games and I just couldn't come out of my closet till today. Yes TFP, I'm a SNES, vNES, Ending Man fan.

I love them all.
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Old 06-26-2009, 10:23 AM   #6 (permalink)
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It's a great site, but copyright law doesn't work the way they say it does.
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Old 06-26-2009, 12:12 PM   #7 (permalink)
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great, my productivity already sucks. this is not going to improve that score at all.... maybe in Bubble Bobble.
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Old 06-26-2009, 12:17 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Mega Man.. fuck.yes.

buh bye production.
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Old 06-26-2009, 12:22 PM   #9 (permalink)
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It's a great site, but copyright law doesn't work the way they say it does.
I didn't think it did, but if it makes them feel "justified" for ripping licensed games and sharing them en masse, I guess it's a start, and a slightly safer alternative for the average man than downloading ROMs from shady re-directed links.

If you happen to know, what is the legitimate terms of fair use through copyright?
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Old 06-26-2009, 12:45 PM   #10 (permalink)
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We just buy the old games ourselves for our Wii with their Virtual Console service. While their selection is limited in some ways, it has a lot of good games too, and for multiple consoles (including non-Nintendo consoles). We have Super Mario Bros. 3, Punchout!, River City Ransom, Lifeforce, and Altered Beast, among others. I'm told that many of these games were popular back in the day. Personally, I don't find it to be a big "walk down Memory Lane" thing, mostly because I didn't have a Nintendo or a Sega as a kid, but almost all of my friends do.
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Old 06-26-2009, 01:11 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I just loaded up contra just to put in the konami code.
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Old 06-27-2009, 05:42 AM   #12 (permalink)
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This thread is really weird because whenever I look at the site's name virtualNES, I see my name in capitals. Strange! Yes, I love myself /threadjack
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Old 06-27-2009, 07:44 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Old 06-28-2009, 08:45 AM   #14 (permalink)
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If you happen to know, what is the legitimate terms of fair use through copyright?
I believe the court would hold me innocent of violation if I played games that I owned, but convict them. Fair use covers educational use, criticism, parody (think SNL,) and citation. If a student group wants to show a movie for entertainment in the auditorium, they would have to pay for a license for public screening, not for profit. If they charge admission, change it to public screening, for profit. If a professor wants to show a movie that is related to class (psych classes showing things like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Cybil are common,) it's fair use.
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Old 06-29-2009, 12:37 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Ahhh, the good old days. Fortunately my SNES still works and there's a used book store that has a great selection of games that I can afford.
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Old 07-02-2009, 05:19 PM   #16 (permalink)
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bump for awesomeness :P

and excite bike doesn't seem nearly as fun all these years later
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Old 07-02-2009, 05:38 PM   #17 (permalink)
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We just buy the old games ourselves for our Wii with their Virtual Console service. While their selection is limited in some ways, it has a lot of good games too, and for multiple consoles (including non-Nintendo consoles). We have Super Mario Bros. 3, Punchout!, River City Ransom, Lifeforce, and Altered Beast, among others. I'm told that many of these games were popular back in the day. Personally, I don't find it to be a big "walk down Memory Lane" thing, mostly because I didn't have a Nintendo or a Sega as a kid, but almost all of my friends do.
I meant to address this in the OP, but the site is indeed very akin and identifiable to the Wii's Virtual Console. It houses many classic games, some rarer ones that you'd perhaps never, ever find in your local hobby shops, and just beams the fun and enjoyability of what was once fond pasttimes of our youth.


The benefit of the site in comparison to the Virtual Console as I see it is because of the provincial nature of Nintendo of America, Inc., the company only releases games that were ported to North America as downloadables, so we know nothing of the early history of some of Nintendo's finest games, at least playability-wise; while the site vNES, on the other hand, regularly uploads and features Japanese-exclusive titles that play just as good as before, or even better, due to fansubs/translation addendums.


I love being able to take 15 minutes of downtime in the afternoon, and have the versatility provided to me to either play Super Adventure Island (a game in which I have never, ever gotten past level 3 on..) or Mother, (otherwise known as Earthbound's prequel/sequel). It's a beautiful thing.
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Old 07-02-2009, 05:56 PM   #18 (permalink)
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what was that game where the kid used a yo-yo as a weapon?? I remember spending hours on that
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Old 07-02-2009, 06:06 PM   #19 (permalink)
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what was that game where the kid used a yo-yo as a weapon?? I remember spending hours on that
I'm guessing you mean Mother's port to North America, Earthbound.

"EarthBound takes place on Earth in the year 199X. Throughout the game, four characters, known as the Chosen Four, come to compose the party in the game. They are Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo."





(interesting geek factoid: the main nemesis in Earthbound was an alien who threatened to invade the homely American town of Onett, among other locales in his quest for world domination. What was his name in the game? Zoda, who was also a main antagonist racer from the F-Zero series.) /end

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Old 07-02-2009, 06:12 PM   #20 (permalink)
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bump for awesomeness :P

and excite bike doesn't seem nearly as fun all these years later
ummm.. you know, smoke som... oh never mind.
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Old 07-03-2009, 03:13 AM   #21 (permalink)
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ummm.. you know, smoke som... oh never mind.
lol that didn't even help.

Jetee.. no that's not the one.. it was like an island adventure.. think the kid had to save his grandfather or something.. but he had a yo-yo as a weapon.
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Old 07-03-2009, 03:20 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Old 07-03-2009, 03:53 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Earthbound is epic; it is probably tied for best RPG of all time.

SNES, I still think, was the best system for story based gaming. Now it's about graphics and effects, then it was about superior story telling. it's when the medium became a little more advanced and had the wiggle room to create "art".
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Old 07-03-2009, 04:41 AM   #24 (permalink)
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I found the game I was thinking of..

StarTropics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 07-03-2009, 01:09 PM   #25 (permalink)
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lol that didn't even help.

Jetee.. no that's not the one.. it was like an island adventure.. think the kid had to save his grandfather or something.. but he had a yo-yo as a weapon.
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I found the game I was thinking of..

StarTropics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whoa... you're right. I mistakenly took StarTropics for a combination of the gameplay of Earthbound/SuperAdventureIsland for whatever reason. That was weird. Must've been a long since I've played either of them.

From the article, and the main attribution of my previously wrong geek info:
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The game was added to the North American Virtual Console on January 7, 2008, and the PAL regions' on January 11.

StarTropics was followed by a sequel titled Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II, in 1994.
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Old 07-03-2009, 04:49 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Awesome. They have Karnov.. I used to love to hate that game because it was too damn hard.
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Old 07-03-2009, 06:22 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Agh. This is painful. I can't get any of the games to work. I click on the links and there's a big unloadable square in the middle. I think it's something wrong with Javascript but I can't figure it out.
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